our newest feature project
Love & Tonic is an anthology film of seven intimate, character-driven two-handers, all inspired by the names of popular cocktails. Virgin Mary / Fruit Tingle / A Stiff Dick / Cool Breeze / Vampire’s Kiss / Sex on the Beach / Milk of Amnesia. All of the action is set in a little cocktail bar hidden away on the second floor of a boutique hotel.
A place called Bernard’s.
All of the vignettes — each turning on a new late-night encounter — play out like tracks in a favorite playlist, dropping us in on awkward collisions between strangers who bump into each other at exactly the right (or wrong) moment. Each capturing the rush and sting of modern relationships.
As one reader put it:
“Told with smart, pointed dialogue and a poignant understanding of the human condition, Love & Tonic is a raucous celebration of the beautifully messy ways in which people try — and so often fail — to connect. It’s a tantalizing low-budget indie that’s two parts Alexander Payne, one part Coen Brothers.”
